Visual Music - A Work in Progress

Here's a glimpse at a wonderful Visual Music and Acoustic Image collaboration between myself Vishal Shah and talented Musician, Eduardo Rodríguez who plays Double Bass.

Production team includes:

Vishal Shah, Director & Producer 

Eduardo Rodríguez, Music Double Bass
Lewin St Cyr, DOP & Lighting
Rob Rauchfuss, 3D & Compositor

Renata Kudlacek, Studio Camera

Participants:

Ray Domingo
Kanti De Biswas
Anthea Hamilton
Paulina Vassileva
Ksenia Maximova
María Alché
Steve Baker
Conrad Edwards

This list is going to keep growing so watch this space. More info to come...

Logo Design, Identity & Brand Design

Yarn logo identity and Brand Design I recently completed. It's been a while since my last Blog update so I thought it be a good idea to throw this into the mix. yarn.tv

BLOT Mumbai, Soundscapes

Love Mumbai. Really energetic to see what these local creative guys are doing and producing with the inspiring new and old traditions, cultures and technologies straight from the street of Mumbai.

Do You Have A Second?

*Idea - Display every second of 24hrs actual time all together continuously for 24hrs. In order to show every second of the 24hr clock in one given space and make it viewable at any time in real time be it physical or digital space.

Slightly confused? Don't be, i can just imagine it and see it :) If it were built with actual cogs or watches it would be huge! If it were in a digital space i'm not sure if there's a screen big enough to display it. 

Berlinale 2012 - London, Berlin, Milan

A work colleague and good friend Michele Castellucci from Milan with whom I worked with in London at an online media agency flew into Berlin for the Berlinale 2012. Michele Castellucci and Joseph Fortebraccio one an Award for Best DOP at the Talent Campus competition for a music video they submitted. London connections coming into Berlin from Milan, it was really good seeing them. Yesterday we went to the premiere screenings of the film shorts at the Berlinale, films of note were Rafa, The Man that Got Away and La Santa. As usual afterwards we then went on to talking, discussing creative ideas into the night...

Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Thursday morning feel good don't get better than this...

The Dark Crystal (1982)

The film The Dark Crystal directed by Jim Henson and Frank OZ was bought to my attention the yesterday. This was so ahead of it's time haunting, proper dark, fantasy underworld, amazing animatronics. Here's the film poster which was designed by Richard Amsel.

'...I smell Gelflings'

Children's Book Design

I was recently commissioned by Tlön Books Publishing to art direct, design and typeset their new title 'Brenda's Bottom and her birds'. It was a joy working on this great project with the author Clare Stanhope and Tlön for many reasons. One reason being that i've never worked on an entire children's book before and working with lots of illustrated birds and placing them along the bendy River Thames in London was good fun. Includes 52 types of birds and many of London's famous buildings and bridges. I designed it whilst in Berlin, it was a trip down London memory lane :)

Look out for it, its going to be great to see it in print, smelling the ink on the page, published and in the bookshops and of course the official book launch in London. Can't wait!!!

Brenda's Bottom and her birds
ISBN: 987 0 954 14686 3
Author: Clare Stanhope
Publisher: Tlön Books Publishing ltd
28 pages
£7.99

Take a sneak peak at the front cover design and sampling of the book inside.

#teatimeBLN

Was nice to pass by #teatimeBLN this evening especially from a non dev but creative perspective. 

Big turnout and constant stream of questions rolling out from the floor to the panel. Twitter  have some interesting developments going down for the short and long term. Top to see this here in Berlin whilst feeling the excitement. Will be going to more of these events for sure, some serious dev's around in Berlin. Twitter could be building an office in Germany.

DC Entertainment - New Brand Identity

Nice to stumble upon this gem on a Friday evening - DC recently made public their new brand identity, showcasing DC Entertainments massive portfolio of brands, stories and characters across all media platforms. Loving their new look, cut, simple, yet darkly present and atmospheric. Here's selection of cuts and styles in character. The joker does it for me.